Research Catalog

Title

The voice of the mountains : radio and anthropology / Alan O'Connor.

Author

O'Connor, Alan

Publication

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2006.

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Details

Description

xvi, 70 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Using tape recordings, videos, and the ideas of Antonio Gramsci and Raymond Williams, this work examines the uses of radio for development, the impact on oral culture, and the use of radio by indigenous people in Ecuador and miners in Bolivia. Few anthropologists have studied radio, and The Voice of the Mountains is unique in its approach to the field. Alan O'Connor is not committed to a single research method--ethnography--but to a question about the relationship between radio and political struggles. This work questions, what is the field when studying radio broadcasting? The answer involves challenging the rules of ethnography and asking, what does it mean to follow radios?--Back cover.

Alternative Title

Radio and anthropology

Subject

• Ethnology > Ecuador
• Ethnology > Bolivia
• Communication in anthropology > Ecuador
• Communication in anthropology > Bolivia
• Radio in rural development > Ecuador
• Radio in rural development > Bolivia
• Radio broadcasting > Ecuador
• Radio broadcasting > Bolivia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [57]-63) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Radio and development -- 2. Oral culture or social organization -- 3. mouth of the wolf -- 4. Radio voices and knowable communities -- 5. Beyond the local -- App. A. Radio Latacunga / Javier Herran -- App. B. Aymaras and Christians.

ISBN

0761835377

LCCN

^^2006927250

OCLC

• 71815183
• SCSB-11820509

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library